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Words & Wine: An Evening with the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference

Southeast Wine Collective 2425 SE 35th Place, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an evening of readings by once and future faculty and alumni from the Napa Valley Writers' Conference, while enjoying small bites and a no-host bar featuring local vintages. The event will be held at the Southeast Wine Collective, a community urban winery, restaurant, and wine bar serving handcrafted food, curated wine flights, and wines by the glass from producers in Portland, the nearby Willamette Valley, and afar. Faculty readers include: Lan Samatha Chang, author of three books, including the critically acclaimed novella All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost and the novel Inheritance, Mitchell S. Jackson, Major Jackson, and Ada Limón; NVWC alumni Blas Falconer, Van Khanna, Nichole Perkins, and Marci Vogel. Contact: Napa Valley Writers' Conference Join us at #AWP19 for an…

Free

Offsite with Four Way Books, Persea Books, and Bull City Press

Lucky Labrador Beer Hall 1945 NW Quimby St, Portland, OR, United States

Featuring readings from: Four Way Books authors and friends of the press Sally Ball, Blas Falconer (Forgive the Body This Failure, September 2018), Monica Ferrell (You Darling Thing, September 2018), Jennifer Franklin (No Small Gift, September 2018), Melanie S. Hatter (Malawi's Sisters, March 2019), Owen Lewis, Tom Thompson (Passenger, September 2018), Daniel Tobin (Blood Labors, September 2018) Persea Books poets Stacey Lynn Brown (The Shallows, 2018), Sarah Gambito (Loves You, 2019), Cynthia Marie Hoffman (Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, 2018), Valencia Robin (Ridiculous Light, 2019), and Gary Young (That's What I Thought, 2018) and a selection of wonderful authors from Bull City Press: Kate Daniels (Three Syllables about Addiction, 2018), Leah Silvieus (Season of Dares, 2018), Jim Whiteside (Writing Your…

Free